[cuchulainn]

Hmmm

off Business Wire

http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/cb_headline.cgi?&story_file=bw.081203/232245754&directory=/google&header_file=header.htm&footer_file=Vital Enhancement in Firearm Safety: NRA To Offer Secure Gun Safe Using Biometric Technology

Business Editors

FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 2003--The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) and Sequiam Corporation. Sequiam Biometrics, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Sequiam Corporation (OTCBB:SQUM), announced the intention of the NRA and Sequiam to enter into a licensing agreement through which the BioVault(TM), a secure gun safe that utilizes patent pending technology and protocols to recognize a person's fingerprint to unlock, will be offered for sale to NRA members.
The BioVault(TM) will be offered for sale online and will be featured among the products offered in connection with the NRASafe(TM) program that the NRA announced at its annual meeting of members in Orlando, Florida in April. According to Wilson H. Phillips Jr., NRA's Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer, "We are enthusiastic about working with Sequiam and the BioVault(TM). We believe they offer an excellent solution for safe gun storage, with both secure and rapid access to a personal firearm."
"We believe that the inclusion of the BioVault(TM) among the NRASafe(TM) products will greatly increase our visibility, which will enhance our ability to develop advanced security technologies and more effectively serve the security needs of both the public and private sectors," said Nick VandenBrekel, Chief Executive Officer of Sequiam Corporation. "We have already made the first sales of BioVault(TM) units, and anticipate the BioVault(TM) and other biometric technologies will revolutionize the way people approach security issues."

National Rifle Association of America 11250 Waples Mill Road Fairfax, VA 22030 Andrew Arulanandam 703/267-3820


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CONTACT: National Rifle Association of America, Fairfax
Andrew Arulanandam, 703/267-3820

KEYWORD: VIRGINIA FLORIDA
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: MANUFACTURING BIOTECHNOLOGY SOFTWARE PRODUCT
SOURCE: Sequiam Corporation

[Bartholomew Roberts]

Hope it works better than the biometric products I've seen... hate to see someone locked out of their gunsafe because the static electricty charge from walking across the carpet blew out the sensitive chip that reads the fingerprint.

[Zedicus]

I'll Stick with Good Old Fashoned Lock and Key Thank you.

[Justin]

Biometric gun vault = could be a good storage solution

Biometric gun = bad idea

[Chipperman]

Better hope you don't cut your finger.
We have one of those readers for our time clock at work. Half the people have trouble, and just give up trying to sign in using it.

I'd consider getting one if it had a keyed backup, but otherwise no way.

[willyjixx]

wow!

remember when people left there money under the mattress an a shotgun in the corner?


even better.......remember when your kids listened when you told em dont touch dads/granpas/uncles gun. an they didnt cuz they respected you and listened.

[Waitone]

I gotta ask why. Why would the NRA market such a product under its name?

--Trial lawyer garlic? Tie a biometric vault around its neck and keep blood-sucking trial lawyers away? Is the NRA in someone's crosshairs?
--Does the NRA sense a train leaving the station with biometric technology and it wants to get on first so it can claim to be leading the technology?
--Perhaps the NRA has determined it is best to be on the pro-biometrics side when the technology makes it to the market.

I just don't know what to make of the announcement. What I do know is there is a reason for it.

Maybe an NRA uppity-muck will clue me in.